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JAMESBURG – Making Eagle

By David Kilby, Staff Writer
   JAMESBURG — Tyler Patrick Webb, of Jamesburg, has earned the highest advancement award the Boy Scouts of America offers to Scouts — the Eagle Scout Award.
   Tyler will be recognized in ceremonies Sunday, May 1, at 3:30 p.m. at the Jamesburg Presbyterian Church.
   A member of Jamesburg Boy Scout Troop 54, Tyler is one of approximately 4 percent of all Boy Scouts who attain the Eagle rank. Each candidate must earn 21 merit badges and successfully complete a community, church or synagogue-related service project to earn his Eagle.
   Tyler chose to lead a project of repairing and painting the exterior of Trinity United Methodist Church in Spotswood.
   He has served as multiple leadership positions in the troop such as troop scribe, patrol leader, quartermaster, webmaster and troop guide. He joins other American citizens who have become Eagle Scouts, among them former President Gerald R. Ford Jr., astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, cinematographer Steven Spielberg and the head of the FBI, William Sessions.
   Tyler is a member of Trinity United Methodist Church and is active as a 4-H Middlesex ambassador and serves his country as a cadet senior airman in the Civil Air Patrol. He also is involved in 4-H Frisky Paws Club, 4-H Teen Council and Monroe High School lacrosse where he attends as a freshmen.
   He is the son of Dawn Gilchrest-Webb and Rich Webb, of Jamesburg.